So this happened to me last night, not for the first time but it always amuses me somewhat, and I was just curious if anyone else had experienced something similar in all their own times with NaNo.
I was lying in bed, minding my own business, when suddenly my muse began kicking me in the shins. "Wake up! You have a story idea! Lots of words! Quickly, to the computer!"
Outside of November I may have just ignored it, but these days, I'll take everything I can get. So off I crawled, through the deepest recesses of the night, to squint at my computer screen until the wee morning hours. I felt like I got a good bit accomplished, nearly an additional 1000 words that I looked forward to posting once I was a little more coherent. Except now, here, past the crack of noon, staring at the fruits of my labors, this may as well be written in Sanskrit (hence the title, haha!).
I mean...I think I know what I was trying to do, but...wow. This is rough even by NaNo standards. So I'm glad the story has progressed, but it seems that this evening, in the time that would have been spent writing these 1000 words, I will instead be editing them to make them actually fit into the story in such a way that I can continue building off of them.
Commiserate with me, Mooselings. Have you all had your own brushes with the completely incomprehensible?
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Richard Jeter - The Most Read Author in Antarctica!
...no, really!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 10 52
This happens to me throughout the year, though usually I jot down the jist of my idea in the notebook by my bed.
In the dark.
Without aid of contacts or glasses.
Sometimes I can't decipher what I've written. It's kinda fun trying to though, and sometimes I find gems in the scratches :)
----------Violet
2004 // The Gemini Effect won!
2005 // Lilim's Gate 17,144
2006 // Into the Fire won!
2007 // A Prince's Ransom won!
2008 // In Your Dreams won!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 17 43
Not yet this year, although I expect it's coming. Especially as I start staying up late as hell to meet my word counts after everyone goes to bed. Hard to focus on writing when the entire house is awake and making noise, or Nathan's watching a loud movie, or smacktalking his games in the next room. Even with headphones on.
----------Heather Dudley
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A Dragon Writes
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Nov 4, 2009 - 07 09
Richard,
I'm still a NaNo fetus, so I can't speak from my illustrious past. But I have written some dreadful stuff so far, and I keep telling (rationalizing to?) myself that my mind is just working through something that will eventually pay off. Somehow.
Now, if by "Sanskrit" you mean it was in some unknown language, possibly you've just received baptism in the NaNo spirit and are speaking in tongues as proof. ;-)
Kelly
----------Kelly Carter
2009 first-time NaNo
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Nov 10, 2009 - 21 27
I have had this happen to me so many times through out the year that it isn't funny. It's in the poetry/short story deptment. What I really hate is that when I lose the idea right in the middle of writing it. Inspite the notebook thing I have been told to do in the past. The really "fun" ones I have come up with have been when I am dog tired and have written thirty pages into something and realize it didn't make any sense what so ever. Makes me want to pull my hair out by the roots because in my mind I am always sure I just lost something deep and thought provoking LMAO! LMAO! LMAO!
----------" I am never alone as long as the voices in my head and the charactors in my stories are around to keep me company!"